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○ Mammals
○ Birds
○ Reptiles
○ Amphibians
What are viral zoonoses reservoirs?
Zoonotic viruses
○ cause little or no overt disease in nonhuman vertebrate hosts
○ Some have very limited host ranges; others may infect a wide range of vertebrates
True
TRUE OR FALSE. In zoonotic viruses, human infection varies from unapparent to fatal disease.
Zoonotic viral infections
represent an important public health problem globally
Domestic and wild animal
What type of reservoirs do zoonoses have?
Insect and arthropod
What type of vectors do zoonoses have?
Domestic and wild animal reservoirs
What complicates transmission dynamics in zoonoses?
Insect and arthropod vectors
What makes control measures very difficult to implement?
Zoonoses
Diseases transmissible from vertebrate animals, other than humans, to people.
Direct
Rabies virus route of transmission
Indirect contact
Hantavirus route of transmission
Nosocomial
Ebola virus route of transmission
Aerosol transmission
SARS coronavirus route of transmission
Vertical / in utero
Zika virus route of transmission
vector or arthropod-borne
Yellow fever virus and West Nile virus route of transmission